animation show! sans hertzfeldt
The Animation Show #4 is coming! (It’ll hit the Bay Area this Friday, at the Lumiere in San Francisco, and the Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley).
I remember seeing the very first Animation Show debut in Campbell Hall (in 2003? that era is a bit hazy). Don H. and the other UCSB alums who did his voiceovers gave a great intro and took questions afterwards. (I still have my Animation Show T-shirt from that year’s Comic-Con!)
It was happier times, I guess — ’cause now Don Hertzfeldt isn’t associated with the show he co-founded, like, at all. From his Bitter Films blog, in March:
last week i decided it was time for me to part ways with the animation show. it’s been five years and three tours and some good memories. they have a new tour rolling through theaters this summer and i don’t know what will be in it but i encourage you to go check it out
The show is now entirely curated by Mike Judge. And, uh, you know how I feel about that dude.
Mostly I’m just annoyed that I’ll have to pay two (2!!) admission fees to see both AS#4 and Hertzfeldt’s upcoming i am so proud of you, the follow-up to AS#3’s everything will be ok. Disappointing all around.
Drew wrote:
That is sad news indeed. Does Hertzfeldt’s absence mean a lack of any Hertzfeldt films for the future? I was also at that first Campbell Hall show, and I also cannot remember for the life of me what year it was.
Also, being a relatively new reader of yours, I don’t know what your thoughts on Mike Judge are, but I’m willing to bet that they’re more negative than mine. Why does the world hate Mike Judge? Why do his own fans focus on one particular work of his and hate everything else?
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 9:28 pm | Permalink